new questions this morning about another questionable meeting with donald trump jr. the president s oldest son met at trump tower with an emissary two months before the election. they were offering assistance to the campaign. the first indication a country other than russia tried to influence the election outcome. the emissary is a lebanese-american emissary cooperating with the mueller investigation. the crown prince in saudi arabia was eager to help his father win. according to the times, the social media expert was at the meeting and his company put together a multimillion dollar proposal for social media manipulation efforts to help trump. it is unclear if that plan was
emirates were eager to help his father win. and, israeli social media specialist joel zamel who extolled his company s ability to give an edge to a political campaign. by that time the firm had already drawn up a multi-million dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect mr. trump. the times reports don jr. responded approvingly. but in a statement, his lawyer says his client was not interested and that was the end of it. this is the big headline here, because it is the first indication that russia was not the only country offering to help the trump team win the white house. so our big question is this why did don jr. take multiple meetings with representatives of foreign governments? or at least those purporting to be representatives. we ve got a team of reporters and analysts to talk about all this. let s start with one of the new york times reporters on that byline. mark mazetti is a correspondent